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Article: VIOLA PLAYS VIDEO AS FINE ART.(U)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- January 30, 2003
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Byline: Rob Lowman Entertainment Editor
As you stand in the darkened room at the Getty Museum before Bill Viola's ``The Quintet of the Astonished,'' you might at first think it's a still life. Projected on the 4 1/2-foot-high, 8-foot-wide high-definition screen are five people, each in a different but highly emotional state. It soon dawns on you, though, that these people are in motion - a slow blink or a slight gesture may have given it away. But video artist Viola does not have his actors (yes, they are actors) performing in slow pantomime. Instead, he has shot ``a wave'' of emotion on high-speed film in one continuous take - which, when played at normal ...